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Author: Bath, Elizabeth

Biography:

BATH, Elizabeth, formerly PADDY (1776-1844: ancestry.co.uk)

She was born on 17 Feb. 1776 at Falmouth, Cornwall, the daughter of Edward Paddy, Master of a Packet, and his wife Mary Rowling. She married Henry Bath, a joiner (carpenter/builder) on 7 Nov. 1796 at Falmouth. Both families were Quakers. In 1800 they moved to Portreath and her husband began to develop a multi-faceted copper business--as agent for mines, smelter, and exporter--which moved to Swansea in 1816 where they lived comfortably at Rosehill, Mumbles. Their son Henry (1797-1864) further expanded the business. (The firm of Henry Bath & Son is still in existence.) He was also active in local philanthropy and was one of the vice-presidents of the British and Foreign Sailors Society. She published, by subscription, Poems on Various Occasions (1806), which contained sonnets, topographical and occasional verse, an "Address to Poetry" and "On the Aeolian Harp." Her husband died, aged 69, on 29 May 1844. She died later that year, 25 Oct., at Falmouth, from “an attack of Paralysis.” (ancestry.co.uk 4 Sept. 2020; Royal Cornwall Gazette 7 Jun. 1844, 1 Nov. 1844; Annual Monitor 1844, 1845) AA

 

Books written (1):

Bristol: printed by J. Desmond, 1806